Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says video of Adam Toledo's fatal shooting by police 'incredibly diffic [View all]
Source: Chicago Tribune
Hours before city officials plan to release video of a police officer shooting 13-year old Adam Toledo, Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday asked Chicago residents to withhold judgment and again called for peace.
The mayor choked back tears as she discussed the city’s endemic gun violence, saying, “We can’t have that be what young people experience in our city.”
“Simply put, we failed Adam,” she said during a City Hall news conference.
Toledo was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer in the early morning hours of March 29 in a Little Village alley after a foot pursuit, touching off protests and demonstrations in the neighborhood.
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